The Latest Breaking News from Second World War

No country can stay on sidelines of Ukraine crisis, says Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg

India has a special responsibility in Indo-Pacific and South Asia, says delegate

The Hindu · Mar 22, 2022

Holocaust survivor, 96, killed by shelling in Ukraine after surviving four concentration camps

Boris Romanchenko was killed by a missile in Kharkiv 77 years after the end of the Second World War

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022

Hero survivor, 95, of four Nazi concentration camps is killed by shell in Putin's war

Boris Romanchenko had also been incarcerated in the Second World War in the Bergen-Belsen, Peenemünde, and Mittelbau-Dora camps, but has now died in the Russian shelling of Ukraine

Daily Mirror · Mar 21, 2022

TV star Mariella Frostrup backs our appeal and says: Dig deep

Another star of the entertainment industry has backed our Evening Standard Ukraine Appeal, as the number of people fleeing the Russian invasion approached three million in what has become Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War.

Evening Standard · Mar 15, 2022

Why Russian attacks on innocent Ukrainian citizens will probably intensify

In 1942, a citizen of the southern Soviet Union city of Rostov-on-Don recalled its bombardment, documented in the book Rostov Under the Shadow of the Swastika by Vladislav Vyacheslavovich Smirnov:

The Conversation · Mar 14, 2022

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2022

Nato: the western alliance which protects the security of Europe

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War.

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2022

Russian media raises spectre of nuclear attack on Japan

Islands between Russia and Japan have been source of territorial dispute dating to end of Second World War

Wales Online · Mar 11, 2022

Ukraine-Russia war: Refugee numbers 'could rise to 4 million in days to come'

More than 2.2 million people have fled Ukraine and officials have been briefed that the crisis is the worst since the Second World War

Daily Mirror · Mar 10, 2022

Meet the grandparents trying to escape Ukraine: ‘I lived through the Second World War. And now we have this’

The elderly living in war-torn Ukraine are often unable to leave their homes despite air raids and shelling. David Cohen meets two grandmothers who, with the help of their daughters, managed to reach the Polish border

The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2022